I mentioned a few posts earlier that I was co-leading our co-op and teaching drama. We were preparing the kids for their first ever skit night to present to a live audience!! It was a huge under taking!! I put so much work, time & research into this. As the performance day slowly inched closer the more nervous I got. I was so nervous that I didn't even invite the grandparents to come! I thought for sure it was going to be a flop. From what I had seen at practices and rehearsals I had no idea how we were going to pull this off.
Then! We had dress rehearsal and it was the cutest thing I ever did see! I quickly came home and sent both grandparents an apology for not inviting them and officially invited them to come.
Up first were the preschoolers with a song.
I had to be with the skit kids and run around and move mics and set up props. Get kids ready to go on stage so I couldn't be with Melanie. She had to sit with the preschoolers and be with her "Other Momma, Jenn" and she did so good. She was brave and walked up onto the stage and sang her songs so proudly. I caught her sitting on Momma Jenn's lap and quick snapped a picture from where I was and they saw me.
Mallory was in the skit Little Women. She is dressed in the pink dress with the white bonnet. She only had one line in this skit.
This was the skit, The Very Cranky Bear. It is a book that I have and read to the kids all the time. During one of our drama classes we did puppets to this book. It was huge hit so I decided to turn it into a play. I typed up a script and we had a play!! Since Mallory only had one line in her other skit she was the narrator for the skit. Max was the moose.
The preschoolers had 4 songs they sang. Here is Melanie and she has her very good friend, JoJo on the left and her other friend, Emmy, on her right. She also talks a lot about the little boy on the far right. : )
The last skit of the night was a military skit and it involved all the kids. The kids loved this one. We had our oldest boy be the captain and he is trying to command his solders who are doing the opposite of what he says. The kids loved it!!
At the end the captain gets fed up with his soldiers and says "at ease" and the all fall down.
The end!
It was a huge hit! The kids did way better then I ever imagined. I saw them in rehearsal... I was scared! ; ) They nailed it!! Lots of moms came up and said thank you to me. One Mom even said she can see this becoming a yearly thing. It is so good for the kids and it was pretty fun to show off our kids to an audience. The grandparents were super thankful for the official invite even though they were coming anyways.
I had to get a picture with my fearless co-director, Andrea. We made a perfect team.
I mentioned how nervous I was about this performance. Before the show I already had my resignation letter to hand into the Moms that I was not going to ever do this again. I was not cut out to lead kids in drama. Then the night ended and they really pulled it off. It wasn't perfect by any means (I forgot to turn on a mic once and some preschoolers ran wild during their songs) but it was good for me to experience. I don't need perfect as much as I want perfect.
I tucked Mallory into bed that night and she says, "Thanks for helping me with my play. It was really fun." My momma heart melted into a giant puddle and I decided I would certainly do it again. And I am going to convince Andrea to do it again too.
